[1] Rasky was born in Toronto, Ontario into a Jewish family, where he completed studies at Oakwood Collegiate Institute and then University College.
After learning the tricks of the trade Rasky became a freelance director and began to travel around the world documenting every inch of his journey.
Throughout the 1960s Harry made films on Castro, Che Guevara, Lady Bird Johnson, Eleanor Roosevelt, the Nobel Prize Winners in 1964 (which included Martin Luther King Jr.) and many more individuals.
He also made two wildly different docudramas entitled Hall of Kings, for which he won an Emmy Award, and Upon This Rock, which starred Orson Welles.
Throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s, he made films on figures such as Leonard Cohen, Marc Chagall, Henry Moore, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Teresa Stratas, Will and Ariel Durant, Christopher Plummer, Yousuf Karsh, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller, as well as that covered a variety of issues including The War Against the Indians and The Spies That Never Were.